Yerevan Bestseller 4/11: Márquez , Aren, Wilde

YEREVAN, MAY 6, ARMENPRESS. This week’s ranking of “Armenpress” Yerevan Bestseller project is led by Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom”. This is the second novel of the author which describes the inner world of an Armenophobic Turkish former serviceman, when he, already an old man, suddenly hears a lullaby song that reminds him of his mother and later finds out that the song is in Armenian: realizing his parents were Armenians. The same former serviceman spends his remaining life searching the graves of his parents, without knowing that it was a misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” comes second. It is one of the most popular novels in the world.

“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green is ranked 3rd in the list. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, “The Fault in Our Stars” is award-winning-author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.

"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez comes next. “People are not always born the day their mothers bring them to the world: Life forces them to be reborn many times”, this is the philosophy of the novel. It was translated to Armenian by Frunzik Kirakosyan.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez is ranked 5th.

Márquez’s “Memories of My MelancholyWhores” is ranked 6th.

Paruyr Sevak’s “Ականջդ բեր ասեմ” (meaning “Listen closely”) is 7th.

Edgar Harutyunyan’s “The Art of Devotion or Ode to the Rose” is next.

“The Great Gatsby”by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald is ranked 8th. It was first published in 1925.

“The Autumn of the Patriarch” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes next in the list.

To complete the bestseller list, the following bookshops have participated in the survey: “New Book” (093-60-40-64), “Noah’s Ark” (56-81-84), “Armenian Book” (54-07-06), “Narek” (51-91-36), “Bookinist” (53-74-13), “Antares” (091-90-01-23) and “Zangak” (23-25-28).